The 82-0 game is incredible, but have you tried 0-82?

The first time I went 82-0 in 82-0 felt amazing. The perfect storm of finding complementary NBA players across generations to create a starting five that had Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Bill Russell — with Steve Nash running the point. Since then each subsequent run to hit 82-0 has felt a little less special, knowing the keys that guarantee a good team like lucking into 60s era Wilt Chamberlain being a cheat code on his own.

For the uninitiated, 82-0 is a website and app where you fantasy draft a starting five based on random spins across teams and eras, all in an effort to make a theoretical undefeated NBA team. It’s perfect as-is, but I’ve twisted the game to my own dark desires to try and assemble the worst team in the history of professional basketball. It’s become my quest to try and go 0-82, and it’s much, much harder than trying to win every game.

Over the course of the last week I have played hundreds of games of 82- 0, literally trying to build a team that can go 0-82. At this point I think it might be impossible, which is why I’m opening this up to the internet to try and find a way to form the worst team of all time.

You might think it’s as simple a picking the worst player on every spin, but it’s just as much of a minefield as trying to build a good team. Rather than the 80s and 90s being your friend, as it is playing 82-0, you want as many spins in the 10s and 20s as possible. This allows you to use expanded rosters to find guys who averaged 0.0 across the board in every category. I’ve also learned that the second you pick anyone who averages over 1.5 points per game there is a very good chance your team is willing at least five games.

At the time of this writing the absolute worst I’ve managed to do is 3-79, with this astonishingly bad team. Not even Brian Scalabrine on the verge of retirement, averaging 1.1 per game could lead me to futility.

As I said, I think it might be functionally impossible to go 0-82 in the game, but I want to be wrong so badly. Please help me crowdsource the answer to try and find out if it’s actually possible to create a team incapable of winning a single NBA game.